Bwah! I'll go ahead and add the "duh" to that statement for you. ;)
It never claimed to be asking questions.
Well, see that's the problem for me here. By wearing the canon cap, it claims to be on the same level as the series.
If you don't like it, you don't like it, but it's not a failing of Brian Lynch that his vision doesn't match yours.
I actually *do* like it. As I was saying to Maggie in a post below, After the Fall is very satisfying to me on the initial read. It's action packed and has interesting character moments. The problem is that when I put on my thinking cap and try to peel back layers, all I get is the equivalent of a murky blank slate.
After the Fall entertains and makes me feel intensely. Season 8 entertains (me, at least) and makes me feel (not quite as intensely on the initial read, but later on even more so) and it makes me think deeply about the story long after the punches, kicks and tears have become a mundane part of the narrative landscape. I find them both to be very good and that each carries the strength the other story lacks. Though, to be fair to Season 8, I might feel differently once the in media res has revealed all.
I'm not that upset over it, just slowly accepting my disappointment that After the Fall doesn't attempt multiple layers of meaning. It's a good story and satisfying, but it pales in comparison to what's come before on AtS. Lynch sang a great cover of a classic song, but he didn't surpass the original and never fully overcame its derivative and self-indulgent nature. He answered questions raised by the TV series, rather than raising more of his own in his narrative. So in this regard, I view it as very good but not equal to the narrative and literary story of AtS. Limited ambition of meaning.
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Bwah! I'll go ahead and add the "duh" to that statement for you. ;)
It never claimed to be asking questions.
Well, see that's the problem for me here. By wearing the canon cap, it claims to be on the same level as the series.
If you don't like it, you don't like it, but it's not a failing of Brian Lynch that his vision doesn't match yours.
I actually *do* like it. As I was saying to Maggie in a post below, After the Fall is very satisfying to me on the initial read. It's action packed and has interesting character moments. The problem is that when I put on my thinking cap and try to peel back layers, all I get is the equivalent of a murky blank slate.
After the Fall entertains and makes me feel intensely. Season 8 entertains (me, at least) and makes me feel (not quite as intensely on the initial read, but later on even more so) and it makes me think deeply about the story long after the punches, kicks and tears have become a mundane part of the narrative landscape. I find them both to be very good and that each carries the strength the other story lacks. Though, to be fair to Season 8, I might feel differently once the in media res has revealed all.
I'm not that upset over it, just slowly accepting my disappointment that After the Fall doesn't attempt multiple layers of meaning. It's a good story and satisfying, but it pales in comparison to what's come before on AtS. Lynch sang a great cover of a classic song, but he didn't surpass the original and never fully overcame its derivative and self-indulgent nature. He answered questions raised by the TV series, rather than raising more of his own in his narrative. So in this regard, I view it as very good but not equal to the narrative and literary story of AtS. Limited ambition of meaning.